Global Tangentially Analytical Solutions of the 3D Axially Symmetric Prandtl Equations

Abstract

In this paper, the authors will prove the global existence of solutions to the three dimensional axially symmetric Prandtl boundary layer equations with small initial data, which lies in H ¹ Sobolev space with respect to the normal variable and is analytical with respect to the tangential variables. The main novelty of this paper relies on careful constructions of a tangentially weighted analytic energy functional and a specially designed good unknown for the reformulated system. The result extends that of Paicu-Zhang in [Paicu, M. and Zhang, P., Global existence and the decay of solutions to the Prandtl system with small analytic data, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 241(1), 2021, 403–446]. from the two dimensional case to the three dimensional axially symmetric case, but the method used here is a direct energy estimates rather than Fourier analysis techniques applied there.

Keywords

Global existence / Tangentially analytical solutions / Axially symmetric / Prandtl equations